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Film critic Bob Mondello reviews director Peter Jackson's version of the classic 1933 movie, King Kong. This full-color, digitally generated Kong nearly doubles the length of the original -- and Mondello says it's worth nearly every minute.

Cori Murray, arts and entertainment editor at Essence magazine, previews cultural and lifestyle trends we can expect to see in 2006.

High-end fashion designers have been getting rave reviews for the African prints, textiles and shapes that they sent down the runways. Host Michel Martin explores how it was a good year for African prints and where the trend is going in 2012. She talks with online boutique owner Dolapo Shobanjo and style correspondent Robin Givhan.

Money talks, and a chatty displaced worker talks back, in a French comic drama that details the clash of capital and labor — and dares to flirt with romance across the front lines.

With her steely turn as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Meryl Streep puts the cap on a year that stands out for a raft of movies in which strong women take life on their own terms.

Filmed over the course of 12 years, Ian Palmer's documentary looks at the bare-knuckle boxing tradition of Ireland's Traveller minority, with particular attention to one longstanding family feud.

Andrej Pejic — a male model — walks the runway in both menswear and women's wear for top designers. Jean Paul Gaultier kick-started the Bosnian-born model's career by sending him down the runway in a sheer bridal gown last year.

Many have come to consider First Lady Michelle Obama a fashion icon. In Mikki Taylor's new book, Commander-In-Chic, she tells women how to dress like the first lady, while shopping from different price points. Host Michel Martin speaks with Taylor, a leading authority on beauty and style for women of color, about her new book.

Set in the Cold War era, the espionage thriller Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy spotlights a retired security agent's mission to uncover a Russian spy within Britain's MI6. David Edelstein says the movie is thrilling, creepy and full of "faces you'll love to study."

Long a staple of Western wear, the bolo tie is getting the museum treatment in Phoenix. The Heard Museum celebrates the tie's history and artistry in a new exhibit where simple designs are displayed alongside more traditional works of art in the high-ceilinged gallery.